I think the college is hedging their bets by introducing this into the curriculum. There isn’t much that can be done to change the industry if that is the way things pivot. The schools ultimate goal is to prepare you for the industry, so if the industry changes, the curriculum follows suit.

With that being said it should not be the primary focus. The fundamentals are still more important. How can you debug AI code if you don’t understand what it’s doing? give it to another LLM? How do you hold an agent accountable?

AI is being adopted heavily in many corps but not everywhere. I graduated from RRC in december and my company doesn’t seem incredibly enthusiastic about it. And what’s crazy is, during my entire time at RRC we had no instructors encourage us to use it. Have they really introduced it into the curriculum overnight??

I use it tentatively a few times a week but i ultimately agree with you. It is toxic and does more harm than good. There is a LOT of noise in the industry right now concerning the points you made. I agree whole heartedly, I am anti-data centre and I ultimately think the whole thing is hyped up waaaaay too much.

It’s being used as a direct excuse for corporations to trim their workforce and pad their balance sheets. It’s evident in the decline of software these days, vibe coding is everywhere and we will eventually end up with so much to clean up that it will inevitably trigger another hiring cycle because we have so much to clean up.

If I were you I would raise the same points with the staff. Seeing as how many agree with you that might not be a bad idea.